Good Reads How He Died Fashion CopiousJune 26,2012 Interviews Where you with him the moment he died? Of course. I had decided to go to Montreal for a weekend to visit an exhibition when I got a call from the doctor. He said that it was a question of maybe one or two weeks. Before and after that, I sat by his side. He had...
Fashion Incubator San Francisco introduces new Designers in Residence for 2013 His suits were worn by a folk rock band The Lumineers to the 2013 Grammy Awards and featured in Bay Fashion Magazine and Bay Area Reporter. He participated in San Francisco Fashion Week in 2012. Jake is committed to the city's LGBT community's fashion sense and is a published author on gender...
Good Reads Juergen Teller Interview Fashion CopiousNovember 16,2011 Interviews / Photographers BJP: You've worked with Kristen McMenamy many times over the years, do you think that makes a difference to how you were able to shoot her? JT: Of course there's a lot of history there - a lot of experience and the security that you know...
Good Reads The Gucci Loafer Fashion Copious This hand staining involves several stain and dry repetitions which eventually result in a beautifully tonal rich leather coloring. It was the workers who stained the shoes who most impressed me, wielding a steady hand and paint brush with an ease that is only born from years and years of...
Good Reads Food & Design Fashion Copious It's rare to find in one person a great sense of style in everything — that perfect punch of fashion, design, music, travel, food and art — but Athena Calderone comes close. The former model and actress co-founded Rawlin Designs, a New York-based architecture and interior design company....
Good Reads Long form Writing Fashion Copious The good news for writers is that this dovetails with their financial and intellectual interests.
Good Reads Business Comes First Fashion Copious When looking at the défilés this fashion season, when debating the aesthetic merits of what Raf did for Dior or how Riccardo Tisci reveres Hubert de Givenchy, we should keep this in mind. What does it means to make clothes when so many people are involved with so much money at stake? The...
Good Reads Heidemarie Jiline Sander Fashion Copious "You know, I don't think that is a good question," she says firmly. "You can believe I am also asking myself that." But, she continues, exhaling somewhat, "Creative people always like to create. This brings happiness. So there was no question about returning. The good thing about age is that...
Good Reads Dasha On Russia Fashion Copious Stalwarts sniff at the commingling of museums and curators with fashion labels and luxury titans, but for Zhukova that discussion is as passé as a Soviet propaganda poster. "It's a path of evolution," she says simply. "I don't think it's a good thing or a bad thing." The projects that...
Good Reads Age Defying Models Fashion Copious Her flowing gray hair and "discovery" by top fashion photographer Steven Meisel led to a contract with New York's prestigious Ford Models...
Good Reads Modulation of Sensation Fashion Copious Even as I read it at 2AM I found it quite fascinating. It's not for everyone, but for those who are interested in these kind of subject you'll find it worth while. Modulation of Sensation: Deleuze, Bacon, Cézanne, Wagner, and Richard Pinhas.
Good Reads Greatness is Indispensable Fashion Copious On the editorial side, however, Tyrangiel has yet to achieve his goal—if only because his goal is so ambitious: to make Businessweek "obviate the need to read other things." "Why am I reading this article in this magazine? Why am I reading this right now in this magazine? And what am I...
Good Reads Vodka & America Fashion Copious "He was the first person to see," says an executive at rival Bacardi, "that there was a super-premium category above Absolut, if you had a good product story." And it was quite a story. As Frank explained to Inc. magazine, "I said, France has the best of everything. I asked the distiller...
Good Reads Making of Linen Fashion Copious "It's the muddy part of fashion," says Bertrand Coulier, head of Le Neubourg farmers' cooperative in Normandy, which begins the process of turning flax into fabric. The savoir-faire in the region has helped elevate linen to a high-fashion fabric. Linen, the garb Egyptian mummies wore to...
Good Reads Fritz J. Raddatz Fashion Copious I had been assigned to interview him about his art collection for a small magazine, something I had agreed to only because I rarely refuse those sorts of things. (It's important to keep doors open.) Of course I had an idea of who Raddatz was – his legend preceded him – but never before had I...
Good Reads It Just Works Fashion Copious You can read about it here.
Good Reads The Ageless Supermodels Fashion CopiousModels / Opinion Longevity is not a word often associated with fashion models. These days most of them are the living breathing equivalent of the seasonal "it bag". Walking the catwalk and grabbing the big ticket advertizing contracts for a season, ok maybe two seasons, and then they fad...
Fashion Incubator San Francisco unveiled Executive Director of FISH and Co-Founder of Jeanne-Marc expressed her enthusiasm for the program: "We are thrilled to kick of FISH's inaugural program and welcome the six Designers in Residence to the San Francisco fashion and business communities and to their new home at our facility....
Good Reads Lunch With Carine Fashion CopiousInterview French Vogue's new editor, Emmanuelle Alt, who was promoted from the position of fashion director, has said that in future jewellery shoots will be more classic and that there will be more emphasis on the clothes. Alt and Roitfeld are no longer on good terms but all she will say...
Good Reads Long form Journalism Fashion Copious I know we've all read lots of long and stupid things. And I've read plenty of smart and short things. TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00e54ef96453883401538ee48cd0970b Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Good Reads | Long-form Journalism:
Good Reads How to Paint Fashion CopiousI've recently been avoiding reading articles, and hence sharing them with you, so that I may catch up on some books i've been neglecting reading. And so the Good Reads section has been running dry. So be it; I think this is right. The book i'm currently reading is Cezanne: A Life by Alex...
Good Reads Prometheus Script Interview Fashion CopiousMay 12,2012 Film / Interviews "Above all, invest in the universal human experiences: love and heartbreak, ambition and frustration, rivalry and enmity. Loneliness, yearning, wonder". Jon Spaihts wrote five drafts of Ridley Scott's Prometheus, before handing it off to Damon Lindelof. He's...
★ Good Reads Filmmakers Over Photographers Fashion CopiousInterview / Film Very good interview with Diane Pernet, on the state, approach, and importance of fashion films. DIANE PERNET: I noticed this last season the weight the BFC has been placing on the importance of embracing film, what do you think is the reason behind such a focus? Diane...
Good Reads A Geriatric Starlet Fashion Copious If she seems surprised, she has good reason. Mrs. Apfel, the subject of a string of museum exhibitions, a coffee table book and even a fashion advertising campaign, has long been a magnet to aficionados, those devotees of fashion who dote on her style — a more-is-more mix of haute couture and...
Good Reads Panos Yiapanis Interview Fashion CopiousInterview To add to his accomplishments, last week, Katie Grand tapped him to become Love's fashion director-at-large. Here, Yiapanis talks to Style.com about the new gig, the state of fashion, and staying true to his look. Why did now feel like the right time to join a magazine? I feel...
Good Reads Magazines Start Selling Fashion CopiousBusiness Fashion magazines are suddenly getting into the retailing business. While the glossies have long had a reputation for accommodating the designers they cover, sometimes guaranteeing coverage to those who advertise in their pages, a wave of new ventures and partnerships suggests they...
Good Reads The Paris Review Fashion CopiousJanuary 31,2012 Interviews GRAHAM: Makes sense. So... I'm sure you get this question all the time... How has The Paris Review changed since you've taken over? I understand that when Philip was the editor, there was a distinct move towards nonfiction and photography that created a bit of...
★ Good Reads Forward Thinking Siri Fashion CopiousNovember 13,2012 Tech Very good analysis of Apple's Siri and its (her?) possibilities. If you read between the lines and view this article in a conceptual way it can even benefit those in publishing and commerce. It's forward thinking in that way. Siri is a promise. A promise of a new...
Good Reads Iris van Herpen Fashion CopiousOctober 4,2011 Interview / Designers What inspires you, and what motivates your work? "For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related to me and to my body. I see it as my expression of identity combined with desire, moods and cultural setting. In all my work I try to...
Good Reads Perfectionism as Practice Fashion CopiousNovember 25,2011 When we declare something to be "good enough," we are declaring that we have reached the limits of our comfort zone. A "good enough" outcome, in this respect, is a snapshot of our current ability level. Pushing something beyond this point crosses a threshold into an...
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